About Me

I am an Inishowen woman. That is not a small thing to say. It carries in it a particular relationship with land, with weather, with the long memory of a place that has been inhabited and loved and grieved over for thousands of years. I grew up belonging to this landscape before I had any language for what that belonging meant. The hills of Inishowen, the Atlantic at the edge of everything, the particular quality of light here that is unlike anywhere else I have been. These are not backdrop to my life. They are the ground of it.

The Irish language is part of that ground too. I came to it with love and intention, drawn by the knowing that it carries ways of understanding the world that simply do not exist in English. It offers a different relationship with time, with place, with the living land. It has become a thread woven through my practice, not as performance, but as homecoming.

For thirty years I stood in front of classrooms in Donegal. I watched small people learn to read and write and think and feel and I learned alongside them, perhaps more than they ever knew. I learned that growth cannot be forced. That the right conditions matter more than any technique. That the most powerful thing you can offer another person is genuine, unhurried presence.

When I finally stepped away from teaching, it was not because I had stopped loving it. It was because something older was calling, something that had been patient underneath the whole of my working life, waiting for the right season. The bean feasa tradition. The breath. The plant allies. The wisdom of the Irish land that has been tending people long before any of us arrived in it.

I began to follow that thread seriously, and I have not stopped. My apprenticeship in the bean feasa lineage is ongoing, a living path rather than a completed course. I study the Ogham trees, the ortha (sacred speech), the old healing traditions of Donegal and the wider Irish world and many other things. I work with two Irish flower essence ranges whose plants know this landscape as well as I do. I have trained deeply in breathwork - functional and conscious connected - and I now train others.

I hold credentials as a Filí and Banéigeas within this tradition, alongside many certifications like my GPBA-recognised breathwork certification. But the certificates matter less to me than the thirty years that came before them, and the land that's been teaching me the whole time.

Everything I offer is grown from the soil of this island. None of it is borrowed from elsewhere. That matters to me, and I believe it will matter to you.

Go mall agat féin.

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